Designer: Felix Schlag
Diameter: 21.2 millimeters
Metal content: Copper - 75%Nickel - 25%
Weight: 5 grams
Edge: Plain
Mintmark: Small "P" (for Philadelphia) below the date on the obverse
Value: $0.50 (MS-63) up to $1.00 (MS-65)
The 50 state quarter program is over. I have a complete uncirculated set, and an almost complete circulation set. Nothing strange about that, but in addition I have saved every single state quarter that has come my way over the last ten years. Literally. I have a chest full of them. I don’t know why I started saving them, but more recently I figured that my sons might some day enjoy digging through them to build sets of state quarters. The addition of the DC/Territories quarters has no real impact… eleven years versus ten years. No big deal. But with the upcoming National Park Quarters things are different. It doesn’t seem to make much sense to amass state quarters but not park quarters, and yet now were talking about twenty one years (or more) of quarters. And saving every quarter that passes my way from twenty plus years of minting is... well... a bit much. And as new coins replace old in circulation and new novelty coins are minted these location quarters will become the normal in our change, my boys will grow up thinking of them as unexceptional. The chest full of varying state quarters are unlikely to seam as special against the backdrop of ever changing quarters. A shame. So, despite the fact that I love my chest-o-quarters (and the fact that it looks like a pirates chest full of coins) it may be time to give up on it. I guess the next question is what to do with several thousand generic circulated state quarters…
1 comments:
Bury it somewhere and make a Pirate's treasure map with real tough clues. Give it to your sons when they get older and see if they can find it.
Jeff H
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